3. 1. The struggle for television: a conflict between elites Putin and the media: promoting the presidential vertical -- Presidential power -- Government power over the media -- The Russian media market and its audience -- Methods -- 2. National television and the 2000 presidential election -- National television coverage of the March 2000 presidential election -- The unofficial election campaign, September 1999 to February 2000 -- The December 1999 Duma elections -- The official presidential election campaign, 3-24 March 2000 -- ORT -- RTR -- NTV -- Conclusion -- 3. Elite conflict and the end of independent television -- Television and the transition paradigm -- The struggle for television: a conflict between elites Conclusion A new consensus: public and elite support for Putin's media policy -- The case of Vladimir Gusinsky and NTV -- The case of TV6 -- Support for Putin in the journalistic community -- Television and the Dubrovka hostage crisis -- The case of TVS -- Conclusion -- 5. Controlling the news agenda -- Agenda-setting as a source of presidential power -- Ownership structures and editorial practices -- Methods -- Study results -- Quantitative findings -- Qualitative findings -- Conclusion -- 5. National television and the 2003 State Duma elections -- Television coverage of United Russia -- Television, the fight against corruption and Khodorkovsky -- Television and conflict within the Putin administration -- Television coverage of opposition political parties -- Conclusion 8. The future of the Putin system. Television coverage of President Putin -- Television coverage of the presidential challengers: a weak and divided opposition -- The presidential debates and political advertising -- Television news coverage of Putin's challengers -- Conclusion -- 7. Television in Putin's second term -- More trouble for NTV -- Television and the social benefits reform -- Television and the Beslan hostage crisis -- Ren-TV -- The Ukrainian presidential election, October to December 2004 -- The 2007 and 2008 elections -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- The future of the Putin system.
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BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; v. 70
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